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KNOX – Yes, you’re in Canada, and Victoria is a hockey town

December 30, 2018 // 1 Comment

DEAR HOCKEY FANTS/ PARTISANS du jeu de la dipsy-doodle, On behalf of Canada/le grand pink bit sur la map, I would like to welcome/bienvenue you to Victoria, home to the world [Continue]

KNOX – A Christmas story in need of a happy ending

December 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

I MISS STUART McLEAN. Or, rather, I miss Dave and Morley, the characters the late CBC Radio storyteller created for The Vinyl Cafe. I miss them even though Dave, an unmade [Continue]

KNOX – And the award for the most abused word ever goes to…… awesome!

November 25, 2018 // 3 Comments

AWESOME IS AWFUL. “A perfectly good word rendered meaningless by everyone using it all the time when so many other words would be more suitable,” opined Lori Hamilton of [Continue]

KNOX – A month after legalization, the feared potocalypse has yet to appear

November 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE MORNING AFTER Canada legalized recreational marijuana, I ran into Tommy Chong at the Victoria airport. Knowing the 80-year-old pot icon had flown in the day before for an [Continue]

KNOX – Generations hand down tales of war and sacrifice

November 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

SGT. BILL BOLDT’S letter, penned while convalescing in France, began on a reassuring note. “Now Sis, don’t be alarmed,” he wrote, referring to the Red Cross [Continue]

KNOX – Synagogue slaughter proof that hatred is still among us

November 4, 2018 // 2 Comments

SEVEN YEARS AGO, after someone spray-painted ugly black swastikas on five grave markers, I wandered around Victoria’s Jewish cemetery, looking at some of the names. Here [Continue]

KNOX – Get your pencils ready to begin this week’s current events quiz

October 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

GOOD MORNING class. Time for a current events quiz. Pick up your pencils and begin. 1. In the U.S., they’re up in arms (as it were) over pipe bombs being mailed through the [Continue]

KNOX – No reefer madness as legalization begins in Great Weed North

October 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

TOMMY CHONG almost didn’t make it to Victoria on Wednesday. The 80-year-old Canadian cannabis legend was scheduled to mark the first day of legalization in the Great Weed [Continue]

KNOX – Dr. Bud answers essential questions about legalization of pot

October 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Be prepared: this coming Wednesday, Kamloops becomes the Amsterdam of Canada NEXT WEEK’S CHANGES to Canada’s marijuana laws are like next week’s local elections. [Continue]

KNOX – Marijuana crusader braces for $12,000 ‘Cannabond’ payout

October 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

FIFTEEN YEARS LATERr, Ted Smith’s dreams are about to come true: He’s on the hook for $12,000 worth of pot. Back in 2003, the Victoria marijuana crusader devised a novel [Continue]

KNOX – Civic election campaign might be new but the cast is familiar

September 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

THEY CLOSED THE NOMINATIONS for B.C.’s local elections Sept. 14, and not a moment too soon. By my count, there are 179 people standing for municipal government in the [Continue]

KNOX – Pot-smoking golfers, the Rogue Cow of Metchosin and campaign bucks

September 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

HEADING OFF for a bit, time to update some earlier columns: Do pot and putting mix? Depends who you ask. You might recall the August column about an online survey in which [Continue]

KNOX – The ironic spillover effect of halting the Trans Mountain pipeline

September 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

STANDING BESIDE a small array of equipment that, to a layman, looked more suitable to power-washing your driveway than cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez, Canada’s [Continue]

KNOX – Politicians ignored views of West Coast on Trans Mountain

September 2, 2018 // 7 Comments

THE TRANS MOUNTAIN pipeline project wasn’t halted because it’s a bad idea. It got derailed because its approval was a railroad job, with we on the West Coast the damsel [Continue]